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John Martin

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From: John Martin <towncom...@gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:28:16 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Mon, Jul 7 2008 6:28 pm

Subject: Re: Mt. Vernon #110

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See Chris Noren's post in March on the "Mount Vernon" thread in this
discussion group:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.go...

The poem is attributed in the 1856 source Chris quotes to Theodore
Dwight (1764-1846), Timothy's brother. Either is a plausible author
-- both wrote poetry extensively, including occasional verse. But it
appears to have been Theodore, according to

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/other/ABL/etext/historictowns/historictowns...

in which the historian appears to have examined the original report in
a newspaper.

Note that this webpage appears to be an uncorrected OCR - optical
character recognition - scan. There are inaccuracies in the text,
like "what solemn sounds the car invade." The original may have had
"sounds...invade" where the SH now has "sound...invades," but I'm
betting that "car" is a misreading and "ear" is right.

--John Martin

On Jul 6, 4:32 pm, "mudws" <mu...@olemiss.edu> wrote:

> scripsit janice bridges <bridgech...@hotmail.com>

> > Was there only ever one verse?

> The poem had several verses, as printed in newspapers
> and
> broadsides within days after the general's death. At least
> one
> source (S.G. Goodrich) says the text was by Timothy Dwight.
> I have published additional verses in the complete works
> of Stephen Jenks, and also in my online text anthology:
> http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/texts/Mount-Vernon.txt

> Warren Steel mu...@olemiss.eduhttp://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/
> Department of Music University of Mississippi

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